COR Promotes Continuing Education Amongst Rabbinic Inspectors

Technology is advancing rapidly and food manufacturing
facilities are no exception. As a result, COR – Kashruth Council of Canada,
Canada’s largest kosher certifier, has instituted an aggressive continuing education
regimen for its rabbinic inspectors to arm them with latest advancements in
food manufacturing. As the saying goes, knowledge is power, and COR’s
continuing education programs are serving to strengthen COR’s kashrut standards
and assist COR’s rabbinic inspectors during their inspections at COR’s many
kosher facilities.

Two recent half day seminars featured Mr. John Maconachie
one of Canada’s most prominent process engineers, covering the ins and outs of the
high end machinery often used in food manufacturing facility. The equipment
discussed included heat exchangers, homogenizers and sterilizers, while the
processes covered include heat treatments, process components and steam. “I’m
often consulted to design food manufacturing facilities, and all too often
kosher processes are an afterthought,” Maconachie said. “But if we can learn
from one another and incorporate kosher from the outset, I think both
manufacturers and kosher consumers would benefit.”

Rabbi Sholom H. Adler, COR’s Director of Industrial Kosher
Operations and organizer of the COR continuing education program thought that
the benefits of the program were evident. “COR’s rabbinic inspectors are of
course experts in Jewish law and food science, but we need to constantly stay
up to date on current trends in manufacturing. By having continuing education
seminars like this, our rabbinic inspectors improve their knowledge base which
helps them, the COR organization as a whole, and ultimately kosher consumers
are the beneficiaries.”